Elizabeth Banks is under fire for her own fiery comments made earlier this week about Steven Spielberg. At an event accepting an award from the nonprofit group Women In Film, Banks called out the director for his lack of movies featuring female leads.

“I went to ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Jaws’ and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made — and, by the way, he’s never made a movie with a female lead. Sorry, Steven. I don’t mean to call your ass out but it’s true,” she said.

While Banks is right in her point that there need to be more strong lead roles for women in Hollywood, many on Twitter were quick to point out that Spielberg directed “The Color Purple” in 1985, which featured Whoopi Goldberg in the lead role, along with performances by Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey. The film was nominated for best picture at the 1986 Academy Awards, but lost to “Out of Africa.” When an audience member shouted out a reminder about the film at the Wednesday event in Beverly Hills, California, actress and director Banks moved on.

Twitter has erupted, many voicing anger with Banks for ignoring “The Color Purple,” pointing out its importance to black culture. “Do you have any idea what The Color Purple, a movie about Southern poor Black women finding their voices, means culturally for Black women?” one Twitter user asked.

Also, it appears director Ava DuVernay, whose 2014 film “Selma” was nominated for two Oscars, winning one in the original song category, subtweeted over the uproar:

One user playfully asked Banks for her address, hoping to send her a DVD of “The Color Purple” to show her she was factually mistaken. Another observer praised Twitter users for calling out Banks: “When you see all the good people of black Twitter dragging Elizabeth Banks for ignoring “The Color Purple.””

Stephen KingThe horror novelist and frequent Trump critic alerted fans in June 2017 that he had beed blocked by POTUS. Fortunately, King won't have to miss out: "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling offered to DM Trump tweets directly to him.

"Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika BrzezinskiPresident Trump didn't explicitly block Scarborough and Brzezinski, but he did unfollow them. The "Morning Joe" duo are politically conservative, but emerged as vocal Trump critics in late 2016.

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Bess KalbTrump blocked the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" writer after she hurled a few jokes at him. Afterward, Kalb tweeted that she was mortified yet unsurprised "that the leader of the free world could be so wounded by the gentle ribbing of a comedy writer." She also called Trump a "snowflake."

VoteVetsTrump blocked the progressive veterans advocacy group after it harshly criticized his Muslim travel ban and his potential links with Russia. But VoteVets was unfazed, later tweeting, "The Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced."

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Holly O'ReillyThe musician/activist was probably #BlockedByTrump after tweeting a photo of him and an all-black-clad Melania with the caption, "Dress for the job you want. #widow," or calling him a "bloody idiot." O'Reilly claims Trump violated her constitutional rights by blocking her, and after it happened, told Time, "It's like FDR took my radio away."

John NivenThe "Kill Your Friends" author is a #BlockedByTrump O.G; Trump blocked him sometime around November 9, 2016. Niven turned a screenshot of the block notification into a badge of honor, tweeting "I'm blocked on Twitter by the President of the United States. Strange days."

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Jimmy SmagulaThis actor was #BlockedByTrump, but not by first daughter Ivanka, a fact he used to his advantage after she tweeted a widely-mocked tribute to "my LGBT friends" at the start of Pride Month. "TELL YOUR A****** FATHER AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT" he said on June 2.

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The president has been increasingly busy curating who, and who cannot see him on his favorite social media platform

While Donald Trump​ ​likes to ​dole out criticism on Twitter, he certainly doesn't like to receive it. ​And lately, he's​ even​ blocking people for doing it.​ ​Here is the (growing) list of noteworthy people​ ​who have been​ ​#BlockedByTrump​ ​on ​his favorite social media platform.